[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Compiling and Installing Evergeen on Fedora Core 6

[Natasha Stephan]

Hi all,
As I already mentioned, I've got the prerequisites installed on my FC6 machine.  With the exception of memcached, I got everything from the regular yum repositories.  I didn't configure anything from Peter because I wanted to see how far I could get with the defaults (my stubborness won out).  Hopefully, someone else can test the first few steps below (in Peter's message), and add their experience to the collective knowledge.

I put everything I know so far in the wiki pages which were already started for FC6.  I patterned my additions off of the Debian pages, which looked pretty close to complete.  But when I was looking around for information on where to go next, I found the following at:
http://open-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=generic_installation_information
"If you want to add a new distribution to the documented list of distributions, please use the install template as the basic structure of your documentation."
So, what do you all think?  Should I restructure the FC6 install pages to fit into one wiki "page", using the install template?

Aside from tweaking the wiki, I'm unsure what to do next.  I downloaded and untarred the latest stable Evergreen release, but I haven't gone any farther because I wasn't sure in what order things should be done.  Should I configure Apache first?  Should I follow these instructions?
http://open-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=configuring_apache2
http://open-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=generic_apache2_configs

Or should I run "make config"?  Then what?  Is there a page on the wiki that I'm missing (I really have been trying to RTFM)?  My newbie nature is really coming out here... apologies again.  Though it may try your patience to help me, I will again make the promise that I'll put whatever I find in the wiki for other newcomers!
Thanks,
Natasha

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From: open-ils-dev-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org [mailto:open-ils-dev-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Peter Newman
Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2007 9:49 PM
To: open-ils-dev at list.georgialibraries.org
Subject: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Compiling and Installing Evergeen on Fedora Core 6

Hi
 
Here are some unofficial instructions on how to build and install evergreen:
This gives the result of a compiled, installed but unconfigured system:
 - run this as root:  rpm -ivh http://www2.darlug.org/BlackFriday/core/fedora/6/i386/RPMS/BlackFriday-Fedora-Repo-0.1-1.fc6.bf.noarch.rpm
 - install dries repository http://dries.ulyssis.org/rpm/RPM-GPG-KEY.dries.html in /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/ and http://www2.darlug.org/BlackFriday/dries.repo into /etc/yum.repos.d
 - update evergreen-prep rpm (version 0.1 release 3.fc6.bf): yum --enablerepo=blackfriday-testing update evergreen-prep
 - configure db: http://open-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=installing_postgresql_on_rh_fc#configuring_postgresql
 - download and untar http://open-ils.org/downloads/Evergreen-ILS-1.0.4.1.tar.gz (latest stable release)
 - install patch file http://www2.darlug.org/BlackFriday/evergreen-makefile.patch (cd into Evergreen-ILS-1.0.4.1 directory and run "patch -p1 < evergreen-makefile.patch"
 - run "make config" (need to run to reset TMP compilation area but you can change db and other settings as well)
 - make build or make install
I haven't had time to see if this runs properly so any feedback welcome including steps missed above.
 
I'm working on RPMs to automate this and to help with the configuration side of things...
 
Regards
Peter